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Periodical: Veritable Almanach du Merveilleux

Summary:   From Pat Deveney's database:

Veritable Almanach du Merveilleux, Le.
Les Sciences Mysterieuses Devoilees.
Magie, Sorcellerie, Sciences Psychiques, Spiritisme, Magnetisme, Arts Divinitoirees, Astrologie, Chiromancie, Graphologie, Hypnotisme
1911--1913? Annual
Paris, France.
Language: French.
Publisher: A. Leclerc.
1/1, 1911-1913(?)
1 fr. 25 for France, 360 pp.

This was an almanac containing the usual lists of eclipses and lunar phases, feast days and legal holidays, and the like, but it also contained the astrological predictions of Charles Raoul and F.-Ch. Barlet for the year, and the prognostications for the year of Mme L. Maurecy and N. Vaschide's psychic revelations of the hand, all combined with articles on love talismans, voodoo, physiognomy, Indian fakirs, alchemy, and tales of the mysterious. It also carried a long article on the "modern Pythonesses" who then practiced in Paris (with plates). The journal contained numerous plates and photographs and advertised ambiguously the Caroly Academie de Magie which offered its services: "Fabrique d'Appareils de Prestidigation et Trucs pour Theatres."

Other Sources:BNF.
Issues:Veritable Almanach du Merveilleux V3 1913
Claude-Generated Themes:   Le Véritable Almanach du Merveilleux was a popular French annual (Paris, 1910s) that packaged 'the marvelous' for a general readership rather than serving any single occult school. Between its covers a reader found practical suggestion and autosuggestion self-help, popularized psychical research (the Société des Recherches Psychiques and its pamphlet 'La Force Subtile'), astrology with horoscopes and natal charts, talismans and tarot, spiritism, and even parlor-conjuring recipes. Its natural home in the taxonomy is popular occultism, with astrology, hypnotism-and-suggestion and spiritualism as recurring departments. The almanac's value lies less in doctrine than in showing how the marvelous circulated as everyday reading matter in early twentieth-century France.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Alchemy | Astrology | Hypnotism and Suggestion | Phrenology and Physiognomy | Spiritism (Kardecist)